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[cardie]

Theres a machine in my local arcade which the pots seem a big 'high'.

 

 

Bronze £130 Silver £500 Gold £500?

 

And ive seen a few people winning quite a bit out of it aswell, is this ready to bring some pots in?

[spa]

Have seen £500/£500/£500...

[straekseims]

Got a vid of Baldock services being at £500/£500/£500 and it got that way as I used to go there often, watched em grow each time I was in there. Soooo glad I didn't ever try it when I saw it maxed. Paid all 3 out in a week though as they all where gone next time

[nails]

dreadful game. classic example of a manufacturer releasing old (slotto) software with new graphics. pish

[ady]

nails, on 04 Sept 2013 - 7:13 PM, said:

dreadful game. classic example of a manufacturer releasing old (slotto) software with new graphics. pish

 

Oh now you tell me Nails!..............I came into your acade you said "Ady here's a coffee..you'll love that machine"............

 

Hindsight and friends.....pah!

 

(kidding mate )

[nails]

oops, just seen stevedude2 reading the thread...

for the record i far prefer the original s16 slotto to any of their other games by far.

[spa]

I got a slotto gambler and all I play is Reel King.

[jackpotjon05]

I can tell you from previous experience that all the pots being on that amount means nothing.

 

They could sit there for weeks/months or all 3 could drop at any moment.

 

I played one a few years ago and learnt a very harsh lesson.

 

I had a gold on £500, a silver on £500 and I think the bronze was something silly like £225.

 

Over £800 I put through it, and the result.... not one pot dropped.

 

The moral of the story and these machines.... don't chase, they are completely random and it could end up costing you a fortune like me

 

and probably other members stories on here.

 

I have lost £1000's over the years and no longer do it.

 

Bad machines and so unpredictable.

 

Just do what I do now, try a few quid, if it doesn't go, it doesn't.

 

You just have to be lucky like some people and put a £1 in and drop it all!

[monk3yboy1985]

One of the high street arcades near me has one of these but with a very canny promotion although now I think it has finished £20 matchplay on £500 jackpots I went in a few times a week with a £20 note put it in £10 credit and £10 in the bank then they put theres in usually the same so consequently I played off the £20 in the bank collected anything it offered and then walked straight out with my £20 quid plus whatever winnings i had won with theres for the record the pots were on various amounts cn't remember exactly but for like a good 2 months not a single pot came out of it.

[cardie]

Dropped a Silver pot last night (not for my mate) broze is now at £200!

[stevedude2]

The hook with Reel King Potty (and one or two other Astra games) is the way the progressive pots work.  They increment by 1p, 1p and 2p into the Bronze, Silver and Gold respectively (£1 stake), but when the Gold Pot reaches £500 the 2p per game that would have been added had it not been 'full' goes into the Silver Pot instead, so now you've got 3p going into the Silver Pot each game, and 1p into the Bronze.  If the Silver gets full as well, then all 4p per game goes into the Bronze.

 

This means that the pots look more attractive than say Rainbow Riches, in that there will often be more in them, and when 2 of the pots are on £500 people can't get off them.

 

Very simple but very effective.  The next pot down from the full one gets that pot's money.  It was going to be called 'cascading pots' or something like that, and have the pots on top of each other on the screen, and then coins would drop in every spin and cascade down into the next one when the one above was full.  But in the end it didn't happen.

 

Overall though the chance of winning one of the pots is the same on every game, so it doesn't mean you've got a better chance when they are high, only that you'll win more than the average when it does come in.

[matrix2021]

jackpotjon05, on 05 Sept 2013 - 08:43 AM, said:

You just have to be lucky like some people and put a £1 in and drop it all!

 

This is very true... it happened to me: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Rglodb0o9ug

 

The arcade where I won this, I get on well with the attendants and they said the Silver pot (also at £500) went about £40 after my win - was nice to know, but share the wealth and all that.  However, it isn't the first time I've heard stories where large pots are won in close succession, it's....interesting

[nails]

I played a project machine (£500 jackpot with reels and you could gamble the winnings on a roulette wheel), and won the £500 off nudges after £7 in. as it was paying the old bird next to me said "it dropped £500 10 mins before you luv"

[Idontknow]

stevedude2, on 05 Sept 2013 - 6:36 PM, said:

The hook with Reel King Potty (and one or two other Astra games) is the way the progressive pots work.  They increment by 1p, 1p and 2p into the Bronze, Silver and Gold respectively (£1 stake), but when the Gold Pot reaches £500 the 2p per game that would have been added had it not been 'full' goes into the Silver Pot instead, so now you've got 3p going into the Silver Pot each game, and 1p into the Bronze.  If the Silver gets full as well, then all 4p per game goes into the Bronze.

 

This means that the pots look more attractive than say Rainbow Riches, in that there will often be more in them, and when 2 of the pots are on £500 people can't get off them.

 

Very simple but very effective.  The next pot down from the full one gets that pot's money.  It was going to be called 'cascading pots' or something like that, and have the pots on top of each other on the screen, and then coins would drop in every spin and cascade down into the next one when the one above was full.  But in the end it didn't happen.

 

Overall though the chance of winning one of the pots is the same on every game, so it doesn't mean you've got a better chance when they are high, only that you'll win more than the average when it does come in.

 

I have to ask, so what happens to the 4p when all pots are full? If its a random machine how is that 4% accounted for when all pots are at max? Or is that a trade secret?

[chasnbons]

Maybe it's a trade secret lol.

 

After all I don't suppose all the pots get to £500 that often.

[stevedude2]

stevedude2, on 05 Sept 2013 - 6:36 PM, said:

The hook with Reel King Potty (and one or two other Astra games) is the way the progressive pots work.  They increment by 1p, 1p and 2p into the Bronze, Silver and Gold respectively (£1 stake), but when the Gold Pot reaches £500 the 2p per game that would have been added had it not been 'full' goes into the Silver Pot instead, so now you've got 3p going into the Silver Pot each game, and 1p into the Bronze.  If the Silver gets full as well, then all 4p per game goes into the Bronze.

 

This means that the pots look more attractive than say Rainbow Riches, in that there will often be more in them, and when 2 of the pots are on £500 people can't get off them.

 

Very simple but very effective.  The next pot down from the full one gets that pot's money.  It was going to be called 'cascading pots' or something like that, and have the pots on top of each other on the screen, and then coins would drop in every spin and cascade down into the next one when the one above was full.  But in the end it didn't happen.

 

Overall though the chance of winning one of the pots is the same on every game, so it doesn't mean you've got a better chance when they are high, only that you'll win more than the average when it does come in.

 

Idontknow, on 10 Sept 2013 - 12:42 AM, said:

 

I have to ask, so what happens to the 4p when all pots are full? If its a random machine how is that 4% accounted for when all pots are at max? Or is that a trade secret?

 

The actual percentage contribution of an event as rare as that towards the game is so low it's not worth worrying about.

[hurricane]

Plus you've got the pot's that compensate/back-build itself once it reaches £500. So should the pot sit at £500 for a few months, once it resets it will start off high. I know winderella does this along with others.